Artist: Jean Jacques Perrey
Genre(s):
Electronic
Easy Listening
Discography:
Friendly Persuasion Radio By Dana Countryman Cd2
Year: 2002
Tracks: 16
Friendly Persuasion Radio By Dana Countryman Cd1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 30
Moog Indigo
Year: 1970
Tracks: 12
Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound Of
Year: 1969
Tracks: 13
Musique Electronique Du Cosmos
Year: 1963
Tracks: 15
Good Moog Astral Animations and Komputer Kartoons
Year:
Tracks: 40
Circusoflife
Year:
Tracks: 14
Recording both as a solo creative person and in coaction with Gershon Kingsley, Jean-Jacques Perrey helped popularise electronic euphony with a series of albums in the 1960s that exploited Moog synthesizers, the ondioline, and magnetic tape. His act was never intended to be part of the new wave, as Perrey himself cheerfully declared in his ocean liner notes. His goal was to popularize electronic euphony by deploying it in happy, dim-witted tunes and arrangements. That's wherefore his music falls far closer to easy listening/space age pop than whatever sort of cutting edge -- and that is too why his music sounds more than cheesily nostalgic than futuristic these days.
In the early '50s, Perrey became transfixed by the ondioline, a keyboard instrument that hoped-for the synthesizer with its emulation of other instruments. He dropped out of aesculapian schoolhouse to get a gross revenue representative for the ondioline, and by the early '60s he'd moved to the U.S. to act in goggle box, wireless, and the transcription studio. His '60s albums for Vanguard, both as a solo do and half of Perrey-Kingsley, were his most widely circulated, giving Perrey a prospect to demonstrate his armoury of electronic instruments, treatments, and tape manipulations. The actual results were spirited and childish, perchance betraying more than of Perrey's considerable background in radio/TV jingles than crataegus oxycantha have been intended. Treated more as novelties than innovations, they came back into vogue when Perrey was profiled in RE/SEARCH's Incredibly Strange Music book in the nineties. Perrey returned to France in 1970, where he continued to work in wireless, TV, soundtracks, and former melodic projects. By the '90s he had begun recording once more, first base in a coaction with French electronica couple Air, then with an album of his possess, Eclektronics.
